Great Lakes Placement 2019- Highest Package, Top Recruiters

2 mins readUpdated on Jan 28, 2019 18:04 IST

Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai had the best placement season ever as the Top companies offered coveted roles in sectors such as Strategy & Tech Consulting, Product Management, Digital and Analytics.

Great Lakes Placement Report 2019


Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai Placement Report has been released for PGPM Class of 2019. This year, 97% PGPM students bagged opportunities till first week of January, of working with corporate giants including Accenture, Aditya Birla Capital, ADP, Amazon, Barclays, Cognizant, Capgemini, Deloitte, Gartner, HCL, EY, Honeywell, HSBC, Infosys, ITC Infotech, L&T Infotech, Mentis, MuSigma, TCS, Virtusa, ZS Associates and many more. Moreover, the highest CTC offered at Great Lakes Placement to a PGPM student was Rs 29 Lakhs per annum and the average CTC was Rs 13.1 Lakhs p.a.

Great Lakes Placement is set to wrap up on a high with the remaining students awaiting to interview with top companies over the next few weeks. Great Lakes PGPM 2019 class was an eclectic mix of students from diverse educational backgrounds and industry experience ranging between 2 to 5 years and this made it attractive for recruiters looking for business ready talent who could start delivering from day one. PGPM graduates were offered various coveted roles in sectors such as -

  • Analytics,
  • BFSI,
  • IT/ITES,
  • Consulting,
  • E-commerce,
  • Technology Consulting,
  • FMCG and Product

Where IT/ITES (37%) was the largest recruiting sector followed by Tech Consulting (23%), Business Consulting (22%) and BFSI (5%). In terms of the functional areas, Technology Consulting (33%) attracted the largest set of offers followed by Analytics (15%) and Sales & Marketing (14%).

Great Lakes Placement PGPM 2019: Average Salary Bracket

Student Count (in percentage)

Salary (in Lakhs)

Top 10 %

Rs 19.41

Top 25%

Rs 16.68

Top 50 %

Fs 15.19

Top 75%

Rs 14.22


Great Lakes Placement: List of Recruiters

Sector

Companies

Analytics

Musigma, Tiger Analytics, Fractal Analytics, Gain Insights, i2Decisions

BFSI

Barclays, HSBC, Aditya Birla Capital, CAMS Online, Welnvest

Consulting

Accenture, Deloitte US, Deloitte India, EY, ZS Associates, Bristlecone, Brillio, Cartesian Consulting 

E-commerce

Amazon, Zolo Stays, Moglix

IT/ITES

Accenture, Cognizant, TCS, Infosys, Capgemini, Honeywell, L&T Infotech, ITC Infotech, Brillio, HCL Technologies, Hexaware,  Quest Global, Virtusa, Mindtree

Product

ADP, Mentis, Bizongo

Others

(FMCG, Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, Research)

AbInbev, KALS Group, United Health Group, India Cements, Gartner, Arvind Lifestyles

 This year the placement season was highly successful with students getting placed much faster. The interesting highlight of this placement season was a significant increase in offers for Strategy Consulting, Product Management, Digital and Analytics roles.”, said Dr. M. Balaji, Director, Corporate & Career Services, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai.

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